Current measures to stop deforestation
Name: ______________________ ( )
Class: P5____________
Date: _________
1. Conservationists
The conservationists groups like World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and
Environment Defense Fund help to promote conservation.
Why useless?
Factories:
Less land
for
plantations
Less
people
with jobs
Population
decrease!!
Doom!!
!
What is
Indonesia??
2. Signing of regulation
President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a regulation
on an implementation of a national inventory of greenhouse gases.
There was a program called "Moving Towards a Green Indonesia" which
helped conservationists groups and also deal with deforestation.
Why EPIC FAIL: Deforestation is not fully banned even though the
carbon usage is thought to be able to decrease by 26%.
Fun fact: Duta Palma, one of the palm oil producing companies in
Indonesia argued to BBC news arrogantly after BBC meant that Duta
Palma done illegal logging.
Retrieved from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8555000/8555329.stm
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Duta Palma Group
We are a group of palm oil plantation companies that has been established and operated
since 1987 under Indonesian laws. We have at all times tried to obey/comply with all
applicable
laws
and
regulations.
Duta Palma and its subsidiaries have already obtained all required authorisations for a
plantation company.
To date, we have not received any complaints or reminders from the authorities relating
to the above authorisation, as we are to believe that we have complied with all such
applicable
regulations.
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Illegal logging and High Conservation Value Forest
As a palm oil plantation company, may we confirm that we have never done such illegal
logging as meant by BBC. If there is the activity of cutting trees, which have economic
value, it can be confirmed that such was done by another party or even possibly by local
people beyond our control. Duta Palma and its subsidiaries have never done an illegal
act
or
business.
For your information, previously the land was owned by several companies before we
acquired it, the purpose of the land is as a plantation but they didn't do it properly. By
the time we opened the oil palm plantation there was no forest any more, therefore, no
more
High
Conservation
Value
Forest
in
that
area.
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Peat land
We realise that the structure and condition of land in Kalimantan, some of them are peat
lands, but we would never opened palm oil plantation on peat land with 3 meters depth,
since it is not feasible to be planted and economically damaging to us. The plantation
land that we have opened is on the peat land with average only 0.5 - 1 meters depth.
3. Pressure from conservationist groups’ fans
Supporters of Greenpeace pressured companies like Nestle and
Unilever to change their palm oil sourcing policies to stop deforestation
as the forests are cleared mostly for palm oil. This helped as companies
(which were providing palm oil to the buyers) used less land for palm oil
plantations as they need less palm oil. However, there are still a lot of
other companies using palm oil and thus the problems are not solved.
Fun fact (not really fun actually): Unilever is one of the biggest
buyers of palm oil from Indonesia but it buys only 3% of the palm oil
bought all the companies!
Note: Nestle (you should know) sells stuff like Milo, Kit Kat, Koko
Krunch and the latest product is Nescafe Dolce Gusto (the coffee maker
stuff) while Unilever (you should NOT know) sells a range of products
like Dove, Sunsilk, Lipton, Lux, Vaseline, Ben and Jerry's, Clear, Cif,
Comfort, Lifebuoy, Rexona and Domestos
4. Enforcing heavy laws
-You can be sentenced to ten years of imprisonment if you caused a
forest fire
-The governments are discussing about DEATH penalty
-If you do not enforce the law, people would not care about it
-It is like...you create a rule that no one can bring TNT to school. After a
long time, no one bothers about this rule and bring TNT to school and…
say bye to school
5. Send teams to rescue orang-utans
The government sent rescue team to palm oil plantations to save the
orang-utans.
Efforts of preventing deforestation NOT in Indonesia
Brazil
 Creation of a federal force to fight environmental crime – for which
3,000 new agents will be hired – and the training of 1,500 current
staff in Brazil’s environmental agencies
 Assembly of a committee composed of six ministers with portfolios
affecting deforestation, such as rural credit and land property
policy.
 Inclusion of protected area costs in highway plans and budgets – a
key measure as new and improved roads often cause greater
deforestation
This is not working as this is only among 10% of the Amazon forest in
Brazil. There are still a lot of other areas that would be worse
Done by: Ming Chun